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Short circuit   Listen
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Short circuit  n.  (Elec.) A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Short circuit" Quotes from Famous Books



... terminals T1 T2 must be truncated sufficiently not to penetrate the base and make contact with the barrel, or a "short circuit" will be evident as soon as the battery is ...
— Things To Make • Archibald Williams

... out! Every one of them was hanging by its spiral spring, just above the hole it had filled. The switchboard had opened a little and released them. It was all automatic! The contact of the copper surface of the balls had completed a short circuit which cut the negative current. He had thought of it all, even to this emergency, and the machine could ...
— Pharaoh's Broker - Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner • Ellsworth Douglass



Words linked to "Short circuit" :   electric circuit, tangency, electrical circuit, contact



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